FDA Takes Step Toward Approving Genetically Modified Salmon

[88m3]

cross breed him with a roach so he could continue to annoy people on the internet months after his head was cut off

That's what I was afraid of.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

these things will eventually get loose, what then? since they grow so much faster they will take over the natural salmon rather quickly. i love science and everything, but this is too much. these better be fukking labeled

 

[NZA]

these things will eventually get loose, what then? since they grow so much faster they will take over the natural salmon rather quickly. i love science and everything, but this is too much. these better be fukking labeled

they claim most are sterile, so there is supposedly little risk of that happening

 

[88m3]

they claim most are sterile, so there is supposedly little risk of that happening

Uh have you ever seen fish mate?

 

[jackswstd]

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

they claim most are sterile, so there is supposedly little risk of that happening

they claim in the article that 95% were sterile. all it would take is one nut job to take the fish and release them into the wild. with people running around shooting schools up it's not far fetched to believe something like that would likely happen.

 

[the cac mamba]

genetically modified slaimon?

i read it that way too

 

[MMS]

whoever wrote that doesnt even know how genes work :dro:

 

[newworldafro]

whoever wrote that doesnt even know how genes work :dro:

Please explain?? It seems pretty cut and dry to me, but I'm not a scientist either, just a regular guy that looks at both sides of issues and tries to reach to a respectable conclusion.

Is it not: Mixing organisms that are similar VS mixing organism that are not.

I'll give @daze23 this leverage that this is somewhat about semantics and how its being used.....he said genetically modified which from a definition standpoint could be the same as crossbreeding species like they've done for thousands for years, since you are modifying species to be stronger, grow in various climate, etc.

BUT that is NOT what modifying means in the current context, INSTEAD it is engineering things that have very little relationship to create a Frankenfood, ie fish gene in tomatoes or vice versa.

So lets clarify, in the current understanding and semantics, Genetically Modified = Genetically Engineered.



Corn species from Peru with corn species from Mexico = Similar

Corn species from Peru with fly gene = Not similar

Let me also show yall a salmon farm looks like and why it is absolutely almost 99.99999% chance a GM/GE salmon(s) will escacpe into the wild ....

Here you go......

Although this type of construction looks a little safer......

Anyway, I hope it doesn't get approved, but